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Business Intelligence: Predictive Modeling and Simulation
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Cool BI: Rating the Latest Innovations
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Cindi Howson
- November 10, 2008
Rich, interactive reporting interfaces, in-memory analytics and social networking may be cool, but how much value do they add to business intelligence. This article examines the maturity, value and mainstream appeal of leading innovations.
SAS Offers Manufacturers Early-Warning Analytics
by Antone Gonsalves
- November 3, 2008
SAS Quality Lifecycle Analysis uses early-warning analytics to monitor thousands of parameters and send automated alerts to warn of product defects and potential failures in the manufacturing process before they become costly problems, the company said.
Five Steps to Optimizing BI and Data Warehouse Performance
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David Stodder
- October 20, 2008
The pressure is on business intelligence and data warehousing professionals to handle ever-higher data volumes and ever-more-complex queries while reducing decision latency. Follow this five-step approach to identify key business drivers, optimize system performance, guide new technology deployments, improve responsiveness, and invest for future performance demands.
Kimball University: Practical Steps for Designing a Dimensional Model
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Margy Ross
- September 29, 2008
What does it take to develop a robust dimensional model? Here's how to get from requirements-gathering to final approval in a process that will ferret out the good, bad and ugly realities of your source data and help you avoid surprises, delays and cost overruns.
Vitria Launches Business Performance Analytics App
by Antone Gonsalves
- September 11, 2008
The M3O Operations Book complements the company's M3O product, a business process management suite aimed at blending process management and event processing.
Of BI and Baseball: Two Reports Present Vendor and Product Standings
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Doug Henschen
- August 11, 2008
It ain't over till it's over, and Forrester and BIScorecard reports say the business intelligence playoffs are a long way off.
Fair Isaac Upgrades Xpress-MP Suite
by Antone Gonsalves
- August 11, 2008
The decision management software includes new optimization solvers and features for fine-tuning the product to meet the user's specific needs.
SPSS Upgrade Takes Analytics Mainstream
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Doug Henschen
- July 16, 2008
SPSS Statistics 17.0 makes analytic insights more accessible to business users while beefing up functionality for analysts, programmers and administrators.
IDC Report Shows Steady Growth for BI, Pent-Up Demand for Analytics
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Doug Henschen
- July 3, 2008
Microsoft, SAS and SPSS lead marketshare gains in 2007. Analyst sees media and academia driving mainstream demand.
Cloud9 Analytics Brings Forecasting to Salesforce.com Users
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Doug Henschen
- June 26, 2008
Data warehouse in the cloud gains forecasting app, Excel-based visual report builder.
Are You Ready for Advanced Analytics?
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Doug Henschen
- June 16, 2008
You can now buy analytics as an add-on module for your BI suite, but you'll need expertise to make the leap into predictive analytics.
Predictive Analytics: Peer into the BI Crystal Ball
by David Hatch
- June 16, 2008
A new Aberdeen Group survey finds that there's no silver bullet in predictive analytic success. Here's a sampling of the approaches best-in-class firms are using to spot trends, understand customers, and proactively tune products, pricing and positioning.
Teradata Updates Warehouse Miner
by Antone Gonsalves
- June 15, 2008
The upgrade includes a new feature that enables business users to drag and drop analytic functions from an index and run them against a data warehouse to discover patterns in customer, financial and operational data.
Business Objects Dives Into Predictive Analytics
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Mary Hayes Weier
- June 11, 2008
The SAP subsidiary's first predictive analytics module takes direct aim at the market dominated by SAS Institute.
ILog Module Speeds Deployment of Analytic Models
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Doug Henschen
- May 7, 2008
Rule engine vendor offers a faster way to deploy, tune and manage predictive and statistical scorecards.
What BI Practitioners Can Learn From Operations Research
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Seth Grimes
- May 5, 2008
Growing interest in analytics and the trend toward automated decision making will lead the business intelligence crowd toward the mix of mathematical and statistical techniques used by operations researchers.
SAS Unveils Software To Help Companies Go Green
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Mary Hayes Weier
- April 30, 2008
SAS pitches the software as providing a proactive approach to assessing green efforts, before businesses are forced to by new laws or environmentally conscious customers.
FTC Divided Over Online 'Behavioral Targeting'
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K.C. Jones
- April 7, 2008
The agency calls for industry self-regulation despite concerns regarding collection and use of sensitive data, such as medical information and information about children.
Breakthrough Algorithm Uncovers Ancestry From DNA
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K.C. Jones
- April 7, 2008
The researchers said that their work could also be used to advance understanding of disease and the role genetics play in susceptibility as well as treatment.
Gartner BI Summit 2008: The Next Generation of Innovation
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Doug Henschen
- March 31, 2008
Decision making as core competency, emerging technologies as BI enablers and changes in the BI market itself are core topics at this week's Gartner Business Intelligence Summit in Chicago. Analyst Kurt Schlegel explains the trends and business drivers.
Gartner: Emerging Technologies Will Help Drive Mainstream BI Adoption
by Antone Gonsalves
- March 20, 2008
The technologies expected to breakdown today's hurdles to wider adoption of business intelligence include interactive visualization, in-memory analytics, search integrated with BI, software as a service and service-oriented architecture, Gartner says.
Remembering Joe Weizenbaum, ELIZA Creator
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W. David Gardner
- March 13, 2008
The MIT researcher and debunker of 'Thinking Machines' died earlier this month at the age of 85.
Cognos and SPSS Partner on Predictive Analytics
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Doug Henschen
- March 12, 2008
Cognos fills gap in portfolio while SPSS gains another powerful ally and a leg up on SAS.
Q&A: IBM's Aaron Brown on Text Analytics for Legal Compliance
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Seth Grimes
- March 3, 2008
The burden of legal e-discovery mandates is driving demand for "knowledge discovery" technologies. The program director of IBM's Content Discovery and Search unit discussed the use of text analytics in legal work and other emerging applications.
Q&A: MicroStrategy, Teradata and Informatica CTOs on Pervasive BI
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Mark Madsen
- February 25, 2008
Jeff Bedell, executive vice president of technology and CTO of MicroStrategy, Stephen Brobst, CTO of Teradata, and James Markarian, senior VP of product strategy and CTO of Informatica, have collaborated on a noted whitepaper and joint presentations on the topic of pervasive business intelligence. Intelligent Enterprise contributing editor Mark Madsen recently asked these three thought leaders about the latest trends carrying us toward broader adoption and near-real-time decision support.
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